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I can defently see using a shield. I just can't see any advantage to using a 2h over dual wield as far as tanking goes. More dmg can help to hold agro so in a situation where your having trouble holding agro I can see giving up the protection for the dmg. However, it's likely that dual wield would give more dps then a 2h since it's a privlage previously denied to the tanks. Even if the dps is rougly equil to that of the 2h sword in most games I've played I've found it easier to hold agro with faster hits over bigger slow hits. You just have too much time to lose agro between 2h hits especially if you miss.
There are tatical reasons to chose one big slow hit vs many smaller hits. For example, if the mob has a fire shield that hits you for X dmg every hit. Also if you have skills that give a damage modifier or are on a longer reuse timer. Faster hits are better if you have a flat % chance to proc or if every hit is increased by a flat value. Though many newer games have realized this and started making things scale to speed.
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